Am 12/06/12 18:50, schrieb Alan Bateman: > On 06/12/2012 17:26, Christian Schulte wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am not sure if this is the correct mailing list to send this mail to. >> Please apologize any inconvenience caused. >> >> The JDK 7 documentation of class java.nio.charset.spi.CharsetProvider >> states the following: >> >> [...] >> Charset providers are looked up via the current thread's context class >> loader. >> [...] >> >> Looking at method 'private static Iterator providers()' of class >> 'java.nio.charset.Charset', the above documentation seems incorrect >> since that method uses the system class loader. >> >> ClassLoader cl = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader(); >> ServiceLoader<CharsetProvider> sl = >> ServiceLoader.load(CharsetProvider.class, cl); >> >> Is this intended ? >> > This is a long standing issue (going back to 1.4), we should remove this > from the javadoc.
Or update the code to use the thread context class loader if possible. This would allow using custom charset providers with e.g. Webstart. Anyway. Thanks for taking a look. -- Christian Schulte
